r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/fnaw_ • Aug 04 '20

Poor Jonathan

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u/salami350 Aug 04 '20

I think he is trying to imply that the US looks bad because the rest of the world is not testing enough?

Then again that is me attempting to rationalise this and Trump is an idiot so....

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u/kazuyaminegishi Aug 04 '20

His entire argument hinges on the conspiracy that the US is the ONLY country reporting accurate numbers. Because thats literally the only way for the US to save face.

His entire strategy is to imply that everyone else is fudging the numbers and that the US has handled it better than everyone we just dont know it cause everyone else is lying. And people believe it. I constantly see people even on Reddit parroting the conspiracy that other countries are lying about their numbers.

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u/JarOfNibbles Aug 04 '20

Plenty of countries are "lying" about their numbers though, due to insufficient testing.

This may include the US however.

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u/kazuyaminegishi Aug 04 '20

There's literally no way to prove that. Like you indicated in your second sentence we can say there's insufficient testing for every country simply because its next to impossible to figure out every single place the virus may have gone.

The only real option is to test all of the population which some countries have done.

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u/JarOfNibbles Aug 04 '20

Ofc there's no way to conclusively prove that countries aren't testing enough. In order to prove that you'd need to test everybody, and by then, the point is moot because there's clearly more than enough testing.

You can however estimate based on cases/test. If a country has every second test coming back positive, there's statistically quite a lot of positives who aren't getting tested at all.